Lead Product Designer guiding user-centered design for Cloudera's complex data management products and services. Collaborate with teams to influence product direction and outcomes.
Responsibilities
Influence Product Direction: Challenge and influence your team's understanding of problems and opportunities.
Facilitate collaborative workshops that unlock innovation and drive divergence and convergence to translate strategic goals into tangible product concepts.
Lead Complex Projects: Manage and lead complex design projects mostly autonomously at the product team level.
Contribute to Strategy & Vision: Act as a major contributor to your team's roadmap and strategy.
Collaborate with product and engineering leads to grow your influence on the product vision for your area.
Excel at System Design: Solve complex system design challenges and proactively evolve components and patterns of the Design System, contributing to and maintaining design pattern libraries.
Coach for Impact: Provide hands-on coaching and guidance to less experienced designers within your product group, fostering a culture of customer-centered thinking and driving measurable business outcomes.
Deliver High-Quality Solutions & Influence Shipping: Design simple and elegant interfaces for complex systems.
Proactively influence and improve the team's process for shipping product, partnering with engineering to uphold implementation quality, make smart trade-offs, and potentially contributing design improvements directly in code.
Lead Research & Validation: Lead quantitative and qualitative research, including usability studies, competitive analysis, and deep domain research, to ensure our solutions are grounded in deep customer understanding.
Drive Measurable Business Outcomes: Work with Product Management to define and track metrics for key design initiatives (e.g., adoption, efficiency, retention).
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in design or a related field, and 6+ years of related experience;
OR Master’s degree and 4-6 years of related experience.
A portfolio that demonstrates excellence in solving complex system design challenges, conceptual design, and interaction design.
Proven experience designing complex, B2B enterprise applications, including enterprise software, SaaS, PaaS, or on-prem applications.
Strong understanding of user-centered design processes and methodology and mastery of design principles with a firm understanding of grid systems, typography, and color.
A self-starter with excellent time management skills and the ability to handle multiple projects with shifting priorities.
A strong collaborator and communicator, experienced in working with and influencing cross-functional, international teams.
Proficiency in Figma, Figma Make, Zeplin, and relevant AI-assisted design and prototyping tools.
Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.
Experience working with cloud, on-prem and hybrid data platforms, or other similar technologies.
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